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The Dallas VA Medical Center nurse who told a lesbian Marine her depression was the result of "living in darkness" as a homosexual will no longer be working for the VA. We first wrote about former marine Esther Garatie back in November, after the Dal...

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For the past seven years Teresa Woodard's been a "popular" reporter and anchor for a Fox affiliate in St. Louis, where, as evidenced by the video sampler platter below, she's donned many different looks for all kinds of stories. (Among the...

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Dallas Area Habitat CEO Bill Hall at the razing of the former Ollie's Place in the shadow of Fair Park today
Dallas Area Habitat For Humanity recently announced it would be razing Ollie's Place this morning, a convenience store turned bar turned "...

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The Dallas Police Department has many, many photos of the man you see at right. They were all taken a little after midnight on December 20, on R.L. Thornton just off Grand Avenue, site of a Comerica Bank branch. But DPD does not know his n...

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Actually, it was 1999 when the Texas Legislature passed the law deregulating retail electricity in much of the state. It was a couple more years before consumers could actually shop around from various power providers, creating a system intended to h...

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The Dallas Voice ran a piece last night in which Mayor Mike Rawlings's chief of staff, Paula Blackmon, explains why he's not joining more than 70 other mayors in supporting same-sex marriage at a press conference tomorrow to be held during the U.S....

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Heeding Wikipedia's cry, The People actually reached out to lawmakers yesterday, engaging in calm, rationale discourse about DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FUCKING INTERNETZ. Here's a sampling of messages received by local lawmakers:
@_dezJ @RepEBJ i oppose...

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A few years back there were some questions on the Dallas Historical Society's chatboard about what in the wide, wide world of sports Exposition Plaza's supposed to be. Because, sure, you drive by the circular mini-park at Canton and Exposition all ...

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So says CNN: "The Texas governor will make the announcement before the CNN debate in South Carolina." And Politico: "Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to end his presidential campaign Thursday and endorse Newt Gingrich." (Ooooh, speaking o...

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The space shuttle's dead; long live the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. That's the future of space travel -- the capsule that'll take astronauts deep, deep into the final frontier ... at some point in the near to very distant future. First orbita...

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We here in Texas seriously do not understand what this problem is all about. A friend sent me a link to online comments from viewers who saw a zebra mussel story broadcast January 16 by KXII-Channel 12 in Sherman. Taken together, I have to say neithe...

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With a 4 p.m. deadline on the horizon, T.R. Sullivan wasn't hopeful at daybreak: "The word Wednesday morning was that the Rangers' optimism has waned a bit." Sources have been saying in recent days that Japanese pitching sensation and maga...

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Three days before Christmas we noted that Anland North, a limited partnership controlled by Ross Perot Jr. and his Hillwood, was threatening to block some Dallas Stars and Dallas Mavericks season-ticket holders from parking in their alread...

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Municipal Court Judge Phyllis Lister Brown
In the end, the Dallas City Council voted this morning to remove Municipal Court Judge Phyllis Lister Brown from the position she's held for 17 years. But she's not about to go quietly. Far from it.
Brow...

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No doubt you've heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sen...

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Had a lengthy talk with Mayor Mike this morning about yesterday's doings at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in D.C. Long story short, said the co-chair of its Work and Opportunity Task Force: "This is not about labor or business. I think the Democrat...

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CultureMap Houston this morning notes that city is tops when it comes to wage growth, especially between 2010 and the end of '11. That's per a PayScale report that came out at the end of last week, which thumbed through the check stubs of ...

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This is Ollie's Place at 4909 S. Pacific Avenue, in the shadow of Fair Park. Till very recently the building, constructed in 1965, was owned by Martin Needom Jr., who lives not far away. It was once a neighborhood convenience store in an ...

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Dallas Public Library system interim head Corinne Hill says she wasn't pushed out. The decision to quit Texas for Tennessee and helm Chattanooga's Public Library system was hers alone. But the city's leisurely search for a new director -- and a blown...

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We first told you the tale of Municipal Judge Phyllis Lister Brown in mid-November -- when the city council-appointed judge sued the city to stop from being booted off the bench. Said the 17-year veteran of the muni court, she didn't want to end up...